The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education

Simon Marginson

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2016

The Dream Is Over

The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education

Simon Marginson

Volume 4 in the series The Clark Kerr Lectures On the Role of Higher Education in Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520966208

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The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan’s equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world’s leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr’s vision be renewed?

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Marginson Simon :

Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, and Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education. He is also joint editor of the journal Higher Education.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
PART ONE. A CITY UPON A HILL: CLARK KERR AND THE CALIFORNIA IDEA OF HIGHER EDUCATION
1. An Extraordinary Time Open Access Download PDF	3
2. Clark Kerr Open Access Download PDF	5
3. Clark Kerr and the California Idea Open Access Download PDF	11
4. The Uses of the University Open Access Download PDF	21
5. Martin Trow: Higher Education and Its Growth Open Access Download PDF	28
6. Bob Clark: The Academic Heartland Open Access Download PDF	36
7. Whither the California Idea of Higher Education? Open Access Download PDF	40
PART TWO. CROSSING THE WATERS: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN THE WORLD
8. The Idea Spreads Open Access Download PDF	51
9. Participation without Limit Open Access Download PDF	56
10. The Spread of Science Open Access Download PDF	65
11. The Global Multiversity Open Access Download PDF	71
12. Systems and Stratification Open Access Download PDF	81
13. American Universities in the Global Space Open Access Download PDF	91
14. Enter the Dragon Open Access Download PDF	96
15. Higher Education in China and the United States Open Access Download PDF	110
PART THREE. BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN A MORE UNEQUAL AMERICA
16. Higher Education after Clark Kerr Open Access Download PDF	121
17. The Impossibility of Public Good Open Access Download PDF	126
18. The Impossibility of Taxation Open Access Download PDF	132
19. Economic and Social Inequality Open Access Download PDF	143
20. Unequal Opportunity Open Access Download PDF	152
21. Higher Education and the Economy Open Access Download PDF	168
22. Higher Education and Society Open Access Download PDF	178
Epilogue: After the Dream Open Access Download PDF	193
Notes Open Access Download PDF	201
References Open Access Download PDF	223
Index Open Access Download PDF	239

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 260

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Published: September 8, 2016
ISBN: 9780520966208